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Re: backspace in text mode emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 10 00:12:43 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:09:47 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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CC: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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Greg Fall wrote:
> I'd love to be able to use emacs-nox, but all my attempts to make the
> backspace key do the right thing have failed (^H gets help, and it seems
> especially resistant to any other definition). Anybody know?
Append the attachment to .emacs, and enjoy.
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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; This is $HOME/.emacs for emacs to read at startup
;
; ** Changes the Help Key from Backspace(ctl-h) to ctl-z
; ** Makes ctl-h kill the previous character
; ** Trys to make this consistent in other contexts also.
(defun kill-forward-char (arg)
"Kill the following ARG characters (previous, with negative ARG),
saving them in the kill ring."
(interactive "p")
(kill-forward-chars arg))
(setq search-delete-char ?\^h) ; char deletes from incr search string
(setq search-exit-char ?\^m) ; to allow meta-commands after a search
(setq help-char ?\^z) ; ctl-z is help key
(global-set-key "\^z" 'help-command)
(global-set-key "\^z\^z" 'help-for-help)
(global-set-key "\^z\^a" 'apropos)
(global-set-key "\^h" 'kill-backward-char) ;puts character on kill ring
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